Add a test for [perl #17753].
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a83b6f46 1If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you see.
2It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is specially
3designed to be readable as is.
4
5=head1 NAME
6
7README.hurd - Perl version 5 on Hurd
8
9=head1 DESCRIPTION
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c2da85ba 11If you want to use Perl on the Hurd, I recommend using the Debian
f224927c 12GNU/Hurd distribution ( see http://www.debian.org/ ), even if an
c2da85ba 13official, stable release has not yet been made. The old `gnu-0.2'
14binary distribution will most certainly have additional problems.
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a83b6f46 16=head2 Known Problems with Perl on Hurd
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0a74eaba 18The Perl test suite may still report some errors on the Hurd. The
19`lib/anydbm' and `pragma/warnings' tests will almost certainly fail.
20Both failures are not really specific to the Hurd, as indicated by the
21test suite output.
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23The socket tests may fail if the network is not configured. You have
24to make `/hurd/pfinet' the translator for `/servers/socket/2', giving
25it the right arguments. Try `/hurd/pfinet --help' for more
c2da85ba 26information.
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0a74eaba 28Here are the statistics for Perl 5.005_62 on my system:
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a83b6f46 30 Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed
31 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
32 lib/anydbm.t 12 1 8.33% 12
33 pragma/warnings 333 1 0.30% 215
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35 8 tests and 24 subtests skipped.
36 Failed 2/229 test scripts, 99.13% okay. 2/10850 subtests failed, 99.98% okay.
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38There are quite a few systems out there that do worse!
39
40However, since I am running a very recent Hurd snapshot, in which a lot of
0a74eaba 41bugs that were exposed by the Perl test suite have been fixed, you may
42encounter more failures. Likely candidates are: `op/stat', `lib/io_pipe',
43`lib/io_sock', `lib/io_udp' and `lib/time'.
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0a74eaba 45In any way, if you're seeing failures beyond those mentioned in this
46document, please consider upgrading to the latest Hurd before reporting
47the failure as a bug.
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49=head1 AUTHOR
50
51Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>
52
53Last Updated: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 22:50:30 +0200
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